A one page healthy eating plan
Recently Lulu wrote to me saying: I have just finished reading Weight Loss for Food Lovers. I found that overall the methods that the book outlines have made an enormous Continue Reading →
Not losing weight? Savouring & Portion size may be the issue
An issue that often gets overlooked when trying to lose weight is portion control. If you are eating well and not losing weight the next thing to look at is Continue Reading →
The better the love, the better the heart
I was fascinated to read about research* showing that people diagnosed with heart failure did better, up to four years later, the better their marriage was. How much love was Continue Reading →
Is your child overweight? 83% of mothers of overweight or obese children thought not!
Following my last post, I looked at a recent Australian study of 324 four-year-olds. While one in five of these youngsters were overweight or obese, 83% of their mothers did Continue Reading →
Is your child overweight? Here are the CDC Charts.
For parents to define if their child is overweight is not simple because weight depends on both age and height and children have this annoying habit of inexorable growth, they Continue Reading →
Is childhood obesity a form of abuse?
I recently read a well-balanced article on this contentious subject in the Los Angeles Times (December 21) by Amina Khan. In the first case of its kind, in June 2009 Continue Reading →
Be careful what you attach to
Guy Hendricks, on writing about Fearless Living, has some profound thoughts (thanks to my wife for passing them on). When we work out who we are and what we do, Continue Reading →
My wife has an extremely annoying habit …
I???m really pleased that my wife, Penny, who did so much to make my first book a success, has agreed to co-author these children???s books with me. My wife and Continue Reading →
Defining Love: True Love is a commitment to nurturing personal growth
At a recent workshop I was talking about ‘other-sabotage’. This is when a partner does things like starting to buy chocolates and taking their ‘loved one’ out to their favourite Continue Reading →
Juggling relationships with yourself and others against work
This 30 second speech by Bryan Dyson (CEO of Coca Cola) is worth repeating. “Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air – Continue Reading →